Albany, Australia – February 24

Albany, Australia – February 24

When we woke up we were already passing some islands as we entered the short passageway into the Albany harbor so Jim quickly ordered our coffee and we watched our arrival into port – we both enjoy watching entering and leaving all the ports. We were welcomed into port by a lone piper – it sounded so great! (I'll try to add a pic later) Since this is Sunday, we decided to wait until 10:30 to take the shuttle into town. So... at 10:30 we got off the ship and walked across the small parking lot to wait for the shuttle... the sky is getting darker and darker with clouds. The shuttle gets here and it's the small one – naturally, it's full just as I get to the door so we need to wait for the next one. They are running every 10 or 15 minutes so it's not that much of a problem except it starts to rain. No, we hadn't brought umbrellas so we decided to head back to the ship, eat lunch and then see if the rain stops. As much as I really wanted to see this town with it's old buildings, walking around in the rain does not sound like fun. It's almost 2:00 now and while it did stop raining for a little while, it's drizzling again. Since all-aboard is 4:00 we won't be going now. Tomorrow we arrive in Perth for an overnight stay – hopefully we have better luck there.